Overnight, Tyla became the world’s most beloved pop star. With her Grammy award-winning breakout single “Water” being the first song by a South African soloist to enter the US Billboard Hot 100 in 55 ...

Learn more about the history of African American herbalism and its resurgence today. In today’s world of modern medicine and synthetic drugs, it’s easy to forget that, for centuries, herbal and ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — Black adults in the United States are more likely than any other group to see race as central to their identity. For many of those Americans ...

The truth is that Christian Louboutin does have African ancestry. The iconic designer was born to a White mom and an Egyptian father, but you can’t fault yourself for not knowing this fact, as ...

The recent article in The Root by Boston University historians Linda Heywood and John Thornton generated considerable interest in their groundbreaking findings that most American blacks are descended ...

HOUSTON — KHOU 11 is sharing what connecting Black Houstonians to African roots looks like by profiling two organizations for the kick-off of Black History Month. Both groups are trying to unite the ...

Dr. J. Herman Blake shares how celebrating Christmas on the South Carolina sea islands brought him closer to his African roots.

For many African Americans gardening is deeply rooted in our ancestry on the continent of Africa. Centuries before slavery, Africa had an expansive agricultural society. African slaves, forced into ...

Dancer and influencer Mr. Boris Becker bodied the Congolese whine with rapper Offset in videos posted on Instagram on Friday and Saturday (Oct. 13 and 14). In one video, donning all Black, Becker ...

MIAMI - Tuesday is the first day of Kwanzaa, a seven-day celebration of African culture that is observed from December 26th to January 1st. The name comes from the Swahili phrase "matunda ya kwanza," ...

Pop superstar Beyoncé released "Texas Hold 'Em" a few weeks ago and it features an instrument that she had never emphasized before. This hit song, on her new (and hugely popular) Cowboy Carter album, ...